One of India’s 28 states plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to students there. It sounds like Tamil Nadu’s volume purchasing agent decided to use Linux exclusively after being put off by Microsoft’s bundling tactics for academic users.
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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is pulling the XP operating system from its product line come Monday. The move comes 18 months after the company launched the Vista operating system.
Intel says it has no plans to migrate its 90,000 employees' computers to Vista from XP. “XP is our standard platform,” an Intel spokesman said, according to Dow Jones Newswire “There have been no decisions on Vista and no…
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Windows is getting better, albeit with SP hick-ups, but the Linux desktop is still the best desktop.
To take one example of why I'm in no danger of switching to Windows anytime soon, security continues to be a fundamental problem in any variety of Windows starting with Windows for Workgroups to Vista SP1 and Server 2008. In fact, the newest…
Is “resistance futile” or has Forrester lost touch with reality?
The hesitation to bet the bank on Vista was illustrated by a different Forrester report last month. Then, the research firm touted polls that surveyed 50,000 corporate users throughout 2007. The results, said Forrester, showed that Windows XP…
Calling the situation “untenable” and describing Windows as “collapsing,” a pair of Gartner analysts have claimed that Microsoft must make radical changes to the operating system or risk becoming a has-been.
here here!no kidding. it is almost more work to figure HOW to use the OS then to actually use it. But all software must have an end-of-life cycle. an evergrowing codebase is yet another form of entropy. why is it that MS cannot modularize…
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Why hasn’t Rev 3 made a show about linux? Digg this post to show Rev3 you want a show about lunix! The page linked is the download to ubuntu, but who cares this post is just about showing them we want linux!DIGG IF YOU WANT A SHOW ABOUT LUNI
You'll be able to find help using the desktop browser or online. If you have a question about using Ubuntu, you can bet someone else has already asked it. Our community has developed a range of documentation that may contain the answer to…
This is a great article that puts into plain English why Ubuntu picked KVM as the Virtual Manager in the next release (Hardy) over Xen or any other VM.
Finally someone explains the key differentiation of KVM vs Xen. (Ubuntu developers, one would think, might have done this themselves.) At any rate, I would agree that for Ubuntu it might be the right choice, with the understanding that…
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Laptop design is set to change significantly. These concept notebooks point the way.
This image gallery accompanies our story “Hello, gorgeous! Meet the laptop you'll use in 2015.” Please click thorugh to that article for details on future notebook designs. The Compenion concept notebook, designed by Felix…
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IBM said Tuesday that it has started installing a rapidly growing retail version of Windows in its computerized point-of-sale (POS) terminals and other devices it markets for use in retail stores and restaurants.
Last year, Linux-based POS devices generated about $475 million worth of revenue in North America via device shipments and maintenance fees, according to IHL. But that was just one-eighth of the $3.8 billion pulled in by Windows-based…
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